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Steaming is to render the skin to get it crispier and more fall off the boney.

Just get a steamer insert and a stock pot.  Easy Peazy lemon squeazy.

https://www.amazon.com/Stainless-Vegetable-Steamer-Basket-Insert/dp/B016Z9IYJS

I skip the fridge part 99% of the time but it helps them to not over cook and dry out.

I've made them with the steaming and without.  The crispiness of the skin is the same both ways as long as you stick them in the fridge the night before.  adding baking chowder really helps increase the crispness as well.

I mix 1 part salt, 1 part baking chowder, sprinkle all over wings put them on a rack and refrigerate the day before.  They come out with the skin dried out which helps them start rendering and crisping faster.  Oven cook time is still the same.

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Everyone save themselves the heart ache and just make Alton browns wings


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My fav wings by far.


Made a couple dozen for three games today.

Got tons of compliments at the watch party


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I agree, but I skip the whole steaming nonsense. The steaming, to me, just adds time and extra mess.  I just throw them on a rack with parchment paper underneath to reduce smoke

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Seems like JD 4020's were always popular.  At farm/machinery auctions, they always brought a premium.  I think they are still very popular.

So you can have a gas barrel along with your diesel barrel. I kid, but my dad still has a 4020 gas engine that is used daily.  Because of that he can have a gasoline barrel on the farm.  Crazy to think he's had that tractor much longer than I've been alive.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: chum1's dumb job stories
« on: December 22, 2019, 03:33:16 PM »
Man, this has been a wild ride.  Love every minute of it.  I just work with mostly lame ppl that don't know how to do their job.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Surgery
« on: December 16, 2019, 05:54:57 PM »
My dad just had triple bypass surgery after a heart attack.  They asked him his pain lvl after surgery.  He said 10.  He looked miserable. Could barely talk.  Once they got the chest tubes out it went down to a 2 for him.  They think the tube was pinching a nerve against his rib cage which was causing the intense pain.
Damn. Sounds like he is okay now though?

Supposed to be discharged tomorrow.  Been there since Thanksgiving.  When they operated, the surgeon said his heart was barely beating.  They didn't stop his heart and put him on the heart lung machine because of that. 

Lot of life changes he's going to have to make.  Such as acting like a 76 yr old and not working like he's 30.  That will be hard for him

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Surgery
« on: December 13, 2019, 01:11:11 AM »
My dad just had triple bypass surgery after a heart attack.  They asked him his pain lvl after surgery.  He said 10.  He looked miserable. Could barely talk.  Once they got the chest tubes out it went down to a 2 for him.  They think the tube was pinching a nerve against his rib cage which was causing the intense pain.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: goEMAW.com bbq, smoking, grilling, etc. thread!
« on: November 12, 2019, 02:13:27 PM »
 :drool:

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Back to maps

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A Cartographer by trade, I forced my (3yr old at the time)son to go to a map museum a few years ago.  FDR's globe behind him.

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halfEmpty, tell me more about being a cartographer. Like what kind of maps do you make? Geological?

How have google maps/satellites impacted your career?

I'm a huge map nerd and just skimmed through this book.



Spending half my life with Google Maps it had never occurred to me how important accurate maps were for the military back in the days before satellites. Like I know we raided all the Nazi's scientists/technology but it I had no idea we also jacked all their maps as well.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/untold-story-secret-mission-seize-nazi-map-data-180973317/

Honestly, I don't make many maps any more.(or what I would call a publish quality map)   I used to make geology maps when I was finishing up college and worked at the Kansas Geological Survey.  I do love maps though and have always been a geography nerd even as a child.  I miss the intricacies of making a really fine map.

I use google maps for driving directions.  Not really used all that much for professional mapping or analysis (unless pulling data from google for analysis). 

I'm a solutions architect now and mostly plan projects, integrations, and spatial analysis.  I spend way more time writing code than I do making maps. 

Geography has really started blowing up in the last decade or so.  For instance, company B wants to build a new store.  They'd ask a GIS(Geography Information Systems) person to analyze patterns and tell them the best locations to put that new store (this could be based on traffic patterns, demographics, nearby retail, local income, etc..

For me, working in the public sector now, we have issues with project funding and where to spend money.  So I'll build a model of all our assets, what condition they are in, how much longer they will last, etc..  with the spatial component, I can map out locations around the city where we have multiple asset categories nearing their end-of-life and/or have high consequence of failure.  We can focus project money on those locations, get a better ROI and avoid the always embarrassing, replace a road and 2 years later dig it up to replace the water line underneath scenario.  You'd think that would be a given to do them both at the same time, but that has always been a massive problem in government silos. 

VR, 3D and AI/Machine Learning are really the next frontiers of Geography.  Some really cool applications coming out.

I kind of veered there and didn't really talk about maps all that much.

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Fellow map nerd here, where is a map museum?

Technically a map library, but has over 1 million items.
https://uwm.edu/libraries/agsl/

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: cooking
« on: November 11, 2019, 12:15:08 PM »
:dunno:
lye or baking soda?  never had luck getting them to brown up as well as yours have, nicely done

Baking soda bath.  I bake the soda at 400 on a cookie sheet for like an hour to increase the alkalinity.  I also use an egg wash to really get the color.  Haven't broke down and bought lye yet, but may.

where did you learn about the baking the soda trick?  you just line the baking sheet with foil and spread a layer of soda out?

I honestly don't remember.  It was several years ago when I first started making them, but I read it online somewhere.  I also don't know if the slight change in alkalinity really has that much affect on them.  I think the egg wash is what really brings out the color (which is an unnecessary step if using lye).

And yes, you just spread it out in a layer and bake it.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: cooking
« on: November 11, 2019, 07:48:58 AM »
 :dunno:
lye or baking soda?  never had luck getting them to brown up as well as yours have, nicely done

Baking soda bath.  I bake the soda at 400 on a cookie sheet for like an hour to increase the alkalinity.  I also use an egg wash to really get the color.  Haven't broke down and bought lye yet, but may.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: cooking
« on: November 08, 2019, 08:54:55 PM »
My favorite.  Fresh soft pretzels.  Problem is eating them all before they stale.

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A Cartographer by trade, I forced my (3yr old at the time)son to go to a map museum a few years ago.  FDR's globe behind him.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: jobs
« on: October 24, 2019, 04:41:33 PM »
Moral of story.  If your boss is an a-hole. Screw him.  If not, let him know.  A good boss is supportive of advancement.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: jobs
« on: October 24, 2019, 04:39:02 PM »
I would agree on letting your boss know for the most part. 

However, have a friend who was offered a position in a different office within my old company.  He let his boss know.  Boss countered the offer.  Buddy declined and said he wanted to try out the other office(moving from Atlanta to Chicago).  Boss fired him on the spot because he was pissed he wouldn't take the counter.  Didn't end up getting either job.  to be fair, he said f the company altogether and went somewhere else.  The other offer was still on the table.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: jobs
« on: October 14, 2019, 06:49:58 PM »
Those aren’t as bad as this one dude I know who messaged a coworker accusing her of whoring around.

That's top notch

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: jobs
« on: October 14, 2019, 09:35:44 AM »
Might of been buzzed during the chiefs game and responded to an email from my boss with "Lets get this bread". He was confused

Could have been much worse/awkward.

Buddy of mine at work several years ago was dating a girl with the same name as our boss texted our boss at 1AM.  "I Love you, wish I was next to you" - or something like that.  We still laugh about that one.

This same boss, who I've had at 2 different stops, got a text from a current coworker about a year ago.  He was dating another one of our colleagues with a similar name.  And drunkenly texted our boss, "it was so great meeting your friends and spending time with you.  I love you. blah blah blah"  Earlier he had said he was going to her birthday party so my boss knew who the text was meant for.  Nobody knew they were dating until that text (although we had our suspicions).

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My kids want to go as plants from plants vs zombies. And they want dad to be the zombie with a johnny appleseed style pot on his head...

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Wasn't hungry 5 minutes ago....  now.  I'm starving.  Looks great!

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Hmm.  And i'm not saying you are wrong, but I define East/West lines on football classification (east vs. west) and whether you went to Kansas City or Wichita to go shopping, etc...  my old high school was definitely in the east (usually southeast) for football, and we would go to Kansas City not Wichita.  (really close to being equidistant from outer edges of Wichita and Olathe).  Or in other words, the flint hills were always my east/west dividing line.  I grew up on the eastern side of the flint hills and almost never traveled west of them.

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Anyone else from WKS cousins with like half the county?

My dad will always claim that we are cousins with everybody and normally we just say, yeah sure whatever.....Our most prominent "cousins" own a ton of land out by our farm, big time land barons. We are related through our great grandmothers who were sisters but I have never met any of them.

Anyways our big time land baron "Cousin" was in Topeka for a meeting that my sister was also attending. She was joking around and asked me if she should introduce herself as his cousin at the meeting. I told her to go with WKS neighbor since I doubt he knows that we are "Cousins"


Ben Ji's Sister - "Hello, my name is ben ji's sister and I wanted to introduce myself. We have some land out by yours in WKS and you might know ben ji's dad or ben ji's uncle"

Big Time Land Baron Cousins "Oh I know who your uncle is....did you know we are cousins? Not like cousins cousins but 3x removed I think. I think my great grandma was born on your farm?" (She was)

 :ROFL:

Not from WKS, but from EKS between Topeka and Wichita.  While my last name is one of 4 or 5 prominent names in my small hometown, I wasn't ever closely related to anyone (besides my grandmother).  My dad had 2 first cousins in town and their kids were my 2nd cousins.  That was about it.  My aunt's and uncles all moved away.  Now, my grandfather had something around 60-70 first cousins in town(2 of his uncles had like 20 kids apiece).  The majority of them stayed and intermarried with all the other prominent names in town.  I jokingly said to my dad once that we were, in some way, related to 80% of the town.  He said, "at least."

To the point, after a DNA test, the dad of a good friend and roommate of mine in KC showed up as a relative.  His grandma was from my hometown and a cousin to my grandpa.  We jokingly call each other cousin now.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: electronic music thread
« on: September 07, 2019, 02:43:22 PM »
Damn I wish I would have known about this sooner.  Def doing super vip next year.

https://www.dancefestopia.com

I have a couple buddies that DJamer it every year.  I have yet to attend though.  I am planning a big bang out in Europe next summer before my 10's spot rolls from a 3 to a 4.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Kids
« on: September 05, 2019, 04:15:33 PM »
Also, you won't use it for a couple of months, but baby swings are a godsend.

Can confirm

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